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The Belle II experiment which aims to increase the Luminosity of the KEKB collider by a factor of 50 will search for physics beyond the Standard Model through precision measurements and the investigation of rare processes in Flavour physics. The expected data rate is comparable to a current era LHC experiment with commensurate computing needs. Incorporating commercial cloud computing, such as that provided by the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) into the Belle II computing model may provide a lower Total Cost of Ownership for the Belle II computing solution. To investigate this possibility, we have created a system to conduct the complete Belle Monte Carlo simulation chain on EC2 to benchmark the cost and performance of the service. This paper will describe how this was achieved in addition to the drawbacks and costs of large-scale Monte Carlo production on EC2.
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Sevior, M., Fifield, T., Katayama, N. (2010). Belle Monte-Carlo Production on the Amazon EC2 Cloud. In: Lin, S., Yen, E. (eds) Managed Grids and Cloud Systems in the Asia-Pacific Research Community. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6469-4_17
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